2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Ethnic Network Utilized By Japanese Immigrant Women in the US
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15K03879
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Sociology
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| Research Institution | Musashi University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2019-03-31
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| Keywords | 国際移動 / 日系人 / ジェンダー / エスニック・ネットワーク / 社会関係資本（ソーシャル・キャピタル） / アメリカ / NPO / The New Immigrant Survey |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project aims to consider how the postwar female Japanese immigrants utilize their ethnic networks for their mutual support. On the basis of 1) interviews with Japanese immigrants who voluntary immigrated to SF Bay area after the Second World War and engaged in various Japanese networks created in the local area, and 2) secondary data analysis of The New Immigrant Survey, the investigator found the following results.
Japanese immigrants living in the area constructed some NPOs early in 1970s to help Japanese seniors living in the area. They also created temporal supporting groups for Japanese mothers or pregnant Japanese women most of whom are marrying across national boundaries. Just like previous studies mentioned immigrants utilize their ethnic networks for their social-economic success, this study clarified the ethnic networks also work as substitute family systems which can cover the shortage of their Japanese relatives in the US and support the well-beings of their lives.
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| Free Research Field |
社会学
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
グローバル化する現代社会において、人々の国際移住を学術研究の対象にする社会的意義はますます高まっている。中でも日本からの国外移住は戦後、女性を主流に進行しているものの、この点に着目した研究や、現地においてどのようなネットワークを形成しているかを明らかにした社会学的研究は数少ない。
本研究は、国際移住者が移住先で形成するエスニックなネットワークを、昨今、社会科学領域で着目が集まる「社会関係資本（ソーシャル・キャピタル）」の概念を導入することで、古典的に着目されてきた経済的相互支援とは異なる形で、相互扶助ネットワークを移住女性たちが構築してきたことを、新たに明らかにすることができた。
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